After a lot of hard work, you’ve landed that coveted internship. Now comes the next big challenge: delivering a meaningful project over the summer. Leading a project independently is an opportunity to sharpen your skills, demonstrate your capabilities, and experience personal growth. As you drive the project on your own, the support from your mentor…
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23 Sept 2024
30 Aug 2024
“What are your goals for this quarter?” It’s the question every manager asks, and one that often prompts a flurry of technical objectives and project milestones. Jumping into this internship, I knew my answer. I wanted to practice making informed decisions on my project, since that was one of the challenges I faced last summer.…
9 Oct 2023
Introduction Ever wondered what it’s like to intern as a software engineer at Slack? Picture yourself on the famous Ohana floor—the 61st floor of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco— it is one of many privileges we had as interns. Not only did our experience with Slack’s Data Engineering team let us step onto the…
6 Sept 2023
Embarking on a journey Stepping out of SFO with the familiarity of the fogginess of the city, my story at Slack unfolds once again. As a return intern, I found myself prepped for another exciting summer, and this opportunity encompassed a renewed sense of anticipation — a mix between known pathways and new adventures. Returning…
8 Nov 2022
First and foremost, thanks for visiting my little slice of the internet! I hope the following is both insightful and comedic as I plan to @inject well constructed jokes throughout this post. Introduction Hello! My name is Aleksei and at the time of writing this I’m a rising Senior perusing a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science at the Rochester…
1 Nov 2022
My name is Avery Dunn and I am a rising master’s student at Washington University in St. Louis studying computer science. For the past 12 weeks, I have been a software engineering intern on the API & Platform pod of the Foundation team. I am an active Strava user and have been for approximately 3 years with my favorite activity…
25 Oct 2022
About Me: Hey there! My name is Ryan, and I come from an unconventional background. I am not like most interns from the group in 2022. I’ve dropped out of college 3 times, worked in different fields for about 10 years, then transitioned into a bootcamp. Now working with Strava, they have set the expectation of what it should be…
3 Oct 2022
Internships are a great opportunity for companies to invest in great talent and train future engineers. It is important to prepare a good mentorship plan for the interns, so that they make the best use of their time and acquire experiences that will help make them full-time employees in the future. The first step is…
13 Sept 2022
An internship at Slack is an exciting opportunity to learn new skills, meet other engineers, and build cool stuff. This was the reality for three interns on the Data Engineering team this summer. Throughout our time in this flex-work environment, we got to experience both the wide reach of the virtual environment and the benefits…
7 Sept 2021
On July 21st, 2021, Slack officially became a part of Salesforce at the price tag of $27.7 billion. This was undoubtedly Slack’s most significant event in the past year. As a frontend intern on Slack’s Customer Acquisition team this summer, I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be directly involved with announcing the closing of one…
7 Aug 2019
Parth Shah and Thai Bui Overview One of the reasons why Hadoop jobs are hard to operate is their inability to provide clear, actionable error diagnostic messages for users. This stems from the fact that Hadoop consists of many interrelated components. When a component fails or behaves poorly, the failure will be cascaded to its […]
19 Oct 2018
I can’t say that I was always fond of teaching. My first introduction to it was also my introduction to presenting. Many years ago, a small company I worked for held an annual conference on how to develop and work on its software platform. Having brought all the staff together, the CEO declared that everyone was expected to present. I…
3 Jan 2017
This Bazaarvoice blog entry is co-authored by Tanvir Pathan as part of a Bazaarvoice internship project on the Bazaarvoice Mobile Team. Automated testing of native mobile applications has long been a pain point in the world of mobile app development. If you are creating and distributing apps or open source SDKs across two or more major platforms […]
10 Aug 2016
As the summer comes to an end, so do the internships for numerous university students here at Bazaarvoice. This past week, the interns were given an opportunity to present a summary of their accomplishments. This afternoon of presentations, known as the Bazaarvoice “Intern Demo Day”, highlighted the various achievements throughout the company, not just in […]
11 Sept 2013
(This post is by Devin Carr, one of our Summer 2013 interns.) Working as a Developer Advocate intern on the Bazaarvoice Developer Relations team has been a great learning opportunity. At the beginning of the Summer I discussed with my mentors, Chas Peacock and Frederick Feibel, what I wanted to learn while interning. We decided […]
8 Aug 2013
Every year at Bazaarvoice we bring on a new class of Summer interns and put them to work creating innovative (and educational) projects. At the beginning of the Summer interns choose from a list of projects and teams that interest them. From there they are embedded in a team where they spend the rest of […]
30 May 2013
Last summer I was given an internship opportunity in the R&D department of Bazaarvoice as a software engineer. Having only finished my freshman year in college, I had no idea what to expect from a tech company of this size. I would have never guessed that on my first day I would be handed a […]